Pajamahadeen Rule... rise of the New Media

various FR links | 09-17-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

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  The Manifesto of Pukin Dog

 

 The Dawn of New Media

 

 A New Era of Credibility

 

 

A revolution in news

 

 Bloggers knew!

 

 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media  What is happening is that for the first time in decades, if not ever, the power of the mainstream media (MSM) in the United States is being seriously challenged by a mostly ragtag army of outsiders armed with little more than the internet. The age of the blogger is upon us.

 I think of it as a gestalt- the sum of the whole, together, is greater than the parts added separately.

 

 Post 47 and RaTHergate - The story of how CBS was caught perpetrating a hoax on the American People

 

 IUPAT issues apology ( the crying girl )

 Blows the "it was her brother" theory the idjuts  are throwing out there out of the water ... From rintense's original MONSTER thread about this

 

  The Camera Blinks A nation of fact-checkers, a network in denial.  Seen on a blog yesterday:
You can't say 'well, the sentiments were correct.'
That's like saying to the bank, 'Well, he owed me money' after forging a check.

 

  Hayek Smiled: Why Blogging Works

 

 Love Letter to the Blogosphere (Michelle Malkin)

 

 Big Media get smaller - Michael Reagan: The networks' days of dominating America's news are over ... ordinary Americans are more devoted to the facts than Dan Rather and CBS proved to be.

 

 Freepers- Pajamas Up! Stop Congress looting/ price gouging Hurricane Victims!

 

 HELP!!! I need some info on the History of Free Republic!

 

 

Woman wearing 'President Bush You Killed My Son' T-Shirt disrupts first lady's rally  This woman, Sue Niederer, is the same person who confronted Rr. Raoul on one of his Freeps.
Check it out:
http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11197951&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=8 Niederer is supposedly a friend of Code Pink, the virulent anti-American group who promotes socialist-communist causes.

 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Sue+Niederer+&btnG=Google+Search

 Interviews with her via mega LW groups
http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000585.php

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15399.php

http://www.notinourname.net/troops/nothing-12feb04.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-02.htm

 

  ***ALERT*** Inconsistencies in Marian Carr Knox's Story ***Bloggers Take Note***

 

  MORE RE: MRS. KNOX [Jed Babbin] Tell us about your SON. Who got special treatment, Mrs. Knox?

 This CBS story has become a soap opera

 

 Burkett Admits in February Weblog that He Saw Killian Documents in the Trash

 

 A Media Watershed

 

 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media

 

 

Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar  Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar

Its sort of like a mammoth examining the tar in the pit.

 

 BLOGGERS SCORE CBS VICTORY - Hillary's 1998 Take on Internet Bloggers (Future Free Speech Alert)

 

 

 The collapse of America's media elite. What qualifications exactly, to be a journalist? -- even non-lawyer bloggers with superior research skills – think Captain Ed, Tom McGuire and Polipundit – are going to run rings around "pros" who aren't in a hurry to bring down their favored candidate.

 Who are the real journalists? Hugh Hewitt on L.A. Times editor's comments vs. CBS, Rather mess

 

 

The Fall Of The Big Media (Joseph Farah's Better Than Dan Rather, Folks)

 Big media's fall began with the Clinton Regime. Here was the most corrupt liar ever to occupy the office and the Redstream media attacked the truth tellers instead of the crooks. After watching the nightly news most of my life I stopped watching soon after Clinton was elected.

 

 Smart guys ‘in pajamas’ give CBS a black eye

 

 "Men in PJs" CARTOON... protecting America from the scum of the media

 

 "Pajama People" 3 CARTOON graphics.

 

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Three Cheers for Triangulation [TIME's Joe Klein says all bloggers are nuts]

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"Maybe we can get someone to make Freeper "Pajamahadeen" pjs to sell with the profits going to FR."


this is brilliant! I would buy them I'm addicted to sleep wear- no wonder I'm at home here.

But I too don't like the terrorist connotation. How about "operation pajama freedom".uh this is NOT a euphemism for nudity ;)

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CAIR SLIMES ATLAS AS ANTI-ISLAM HATE BLOG!

Imagine my surprise when I received the Muslim Brotherhood project's American propaganda tool, CAIR's email alert, to find Atlas Shrugs referred to as an anti- Islam hate blog and that I was the object of their hate which puts me in the best company......

What nerve. I love Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Walid Phares, Ibrahim Youssef, Walid Shoebat,  Nonie Darwish among many others. It's the  murdering, beheading, Jew hating, America hating  jihadis I have a problem with. And so should they.
I ought to take a page out of the CAIR playbook and litigate the jihad outta them.

AMERICAN MUSLIM NEWS BRIEFS - 8/15/06
* Verse: God Repeats His Creation
* An URGENT APPEAL from CAIR
* Video: CAIR Rep Discusses 'Islamic Fascists' (FOX)
            - CAIR: Bush Drops Reference to 'Islamic Fascists' (AP)
            - Video: CAIR - 'Islam Does Not Equal Fascism' (CBS)
* CAIR-FL Hosts Meeting with Law Enforcement
* CAIR-MI Welcomes Dropping of 'Terror-Phone' Charges
* CAIR: U.S. Muslims Feel Americans' Prejudice
            - CAIR: Backlash Against Muslim Candidate (NBC9)
            - CAIR-LA: La Mirada Mosque Vandalized
            - CAIR-LA: Public Urged Not to Demonize Muslims (LA Times)
* Hezbollah Fighters Emerge from the Rubble (Wash Post)
            - America's One-Sided View of Lebanon War (Independent)
            - Don't Ask Questions About U.S. Role in Mideast (Observer)
* John Bolton Grants Interview to Anti-Islam Hate Site
* UK: Muslims Face Extra Checks in Travel Crackdown (Times)
            - Profiling Plan Angers UK Muslims (CNN)
* Religious Garments Define Muslim Women (UPI)

JOHN BOLTON GRANTS INTERVIEW TO ANTI-ISLAM HATE SITE - TOP

Just a day after his failing negotiations over Lebanon were rescued by Condi Rice at the U.N., John Bolton granted an interview. It wasn't an interview with the New York Times - as Steve has pointed out here before, Bolton doesn't speak to Warren Hoge at NYT because of ideological differences and perceived media bias.

Apparently, he will grant an exclusive 41-minute interview to someone who calls who believes Islam is a "religious rationale for Arab imperialism."

Bolton granted the interview on Sunday with Pamela of Atlas Shrugs, a nearly-all-issue right-wing blog. During the interview, Pamela called Kofi Annan a "jihadi tool" and said that someone needed to slap Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Seniora. Bolton, for his part, allowed this rhetoric to stand, even sheepishly reaffirming some of it along the way. . .

Pamela's remarks during the interview were inflammatory and outrageous - on par with, say, a Bill O'Reilly. But a quick look around Atlas Shrugs makes the O'Reilly Factor look like Sesame Street.

AS has some pretty crazy policy prescriptions, like an immediate U.S. attack on Iran, but that alone doesn't make Bolton's interview condemnable. The problem is, AS is an anti-Islam hate blog. (MORE)

Give me a break. Bolton talks to everyone. He is on TV almost everyday. He just recentlydid a whole show on FOX's dayside. This is CAIR's way of trying to shut up the truthtellers. Ain't going to happen.
As for their opinion,  I DON'T CAIR.

Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at 07:34 PM in Amerabia: Losing America, Antisemitism:Modern Argument to Age Old Hate, CAIR, Council of thugs and gangstas | Permalink | Comments (16) | TrackBack (0)

Pamela, you've reached a new level of public relevance when the nutjobs at CAIR are now defaming you by name... I love the part about how you make O'Reilly look like Sesame Street.

The Glenn & Helen Show: Debunking 9/11 Myths

We talk to David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, editors of Popular Mechanics' new book, Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts. But are we just part of the vast conspiracy? Listen and find out . . .

You can listen to the file directly (no iPod needed!) by clicking right here, or you can get it via iTunes here. There's a lo-fi version right here, and you can see an archive of previous podcasts at GlennandHelenShow.com.

Music -- "You're on the Hit List" -- is by The Opposable Thumbs.

Browser-friendly flash player, here.

posted at 04:27 PM by Glenn Reynolds

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LGF Tipster Profiled

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article on Mike Thorson, the LGF reader who tipped me off to Adnan Hajj’s fauxtography: Janesville man spotted doctoring of photo from war in Middle East.  link: 44 comments " Proving that ordinary people are much smarter than the elite and biased agenda-driven Drive-By Media..."

#9

Ojoe  8/16/2006 07:59AM PDT

 

This is the real democracy and "Power to the People".

And it is not at all to the liking of the aging leftists.

 

Fox is Zombiefied

Zombie’s pictures of the collaboration between radical left and radical Islam in San Francisco made it onto Brit Hume’s show yesterday: Long time LGF readers and zombie fans will already know how widespread this kind of hate speech is at leftist “anti-war” rallies, but mainstream media usually do their best to look the other way. It’s very gratifying to see this beginning to change. link: 109 comments

#115

Paul  8/16/2006 10:38AM PDT

 

Thanks to zombie and other bloggers the MSM can no longer pretend that these pro-Hezb'allah rallies are staged by "family friendly" peace activists.

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mama winger  8/16/2006 10:30AM PDT

 

Zombie -

One of the very first times I came upon LGF, there was a thread of pictures you had taken of some moonbat festival. Among the pictures was this old geezer with - with - well, a huge, well 'you know'. ( AKA, the Scrotum Inflator... )

Being a midwestern, middle-aged, conservative mom, I felt I had been shown a secret keyhole into the Mad Zone.

That was a changing experience in my life. Sick as hell, but significant nevertheless. :)

Thak you, Zombie.

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Thank you, Zombie...For those interested, a while ago a made a slightly better, and higher-resolution (I hesitate to say the word "bigger") version of Scrotum Man, and posted it here.

 

Watching the watchdogs

Charles Johnson continues to produce mind-boggling results in documenting the outrageous bias and outright fraudulence in the mainstream media depiction of the Lebanon war. Yesterday Charles demonstrated still more staged photojournalism from Lebanon by an AP photographer. (Charles linked to "Al-AP at it again with staged photos.") Other striking instances of similar phenomena are on display in "Leading BBC reporter caught lying," in "Green Helmet Man admits staging photos, AP spins furiously," and in "Azzim Tamimi uncensored." For Charles, it's all in a day's work.

Charles and Little Green Footballs are notable examples of what Professor Stephen Cooper of Marshall University calls Watching the Watchdogs: Bloggers As the Fifth Estate in the title of his new book. (The linked publisher's page offers access to the book's introduction, first chapter and index; the book's Amazon listing is here.) The book is excellent. Judging it by its account of controversies in which Power Line played a role -- Rathergate, the talking points memo, Krugmania, the Haifa Street photo -- it meticulously reconstructs several of the most interesting engagements of the blogosphere and the mainstream media.

Professor Cooper has become both a student and an advocate of the role played by blogs like ours in connection with the mainstream media. In his conclusion, Professor Cooper writes:

Quite simply, the blogosphere exists because it fills a need. It was not brought into being by fiat; it evolved through the accumulation of individual acts. The many people who find it worth their investment in time and effort to create blog content surely do it because they find it fills a need for expression, for giving voice to their thoughts, in a way the previous outlets available to them did not. So, too, does the blogosphere fill a need for those who read the content, and participate in discussion by adding their comments. In this sense, then, the blogosphere represents a vox populi the technology did not determine, but did, instead, facilitate. This is clearly a free market perspective on the blogosphere; the author finds it the most satisfying understanding of it.

Probably the critical theorists, as a school of thought, would be discomfited by the notion that a blatantly commercial marketplace in communication technology has facilitated the evolution of a genre of computer-mediated communication (viz., blogs) with such a relentlessly individualist ethos, yet having such a clear public benefit. Probably they would not have expected that a genre with such inconsequential roots (viz., personal web pages) could have opened up public discourse to a collective level only considered a theoretical ideal. Probably they would have assumed that even an approximation of that ideal discourse could come into being only through some sort of concerted political action, not through the accumulation of voluntary interactions in a decentralized, unmanaged virtual space. Yet, that is precisely what has happened.

This author is inclined to think that social structures which evolve through the voluntary interactions and exchanges among people—such as the blogosphere—tend in general to be more beneficial than structures created through the deliberate exercise of power, however well-intentioned—such as regulatory bureaucracies. That idea cannot be fully explored here. For our purposes, we can simply note that the blogosphere would seem to be a near-perfect instantiation of the ideal discourse.

Real life can often be a pleasant surprise. And that is a good thing about it.

Forgive Professor Cooper his small lapse into academic jargon to cloak his celebration of the role played by the part of the blogosphere that he respectfullly documents and analyzes in the rest of the book.

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Judge me by those that call me 'deranged'

By Karol Sheinin   ·   August 16, 2006 10:46 AM

I have totally arrived. Andrew Sullivan has labeled me 'deranged' for my earlier post on torture being acceptable when innocent lives are in imminent danger.

Of course, the fact that he's hysterically arguing that there was no terror plot out of London makes his charges against me, let's say slightly less believeable.

UPDATE, 11:06am: And Glenn Reynolds called me a "bellicose woman" yesterday for the same post. Even though I'm a lover, not a fighter, I'm ok with that. Of course, I prefer when Glenn calls me "young and cute".

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uh this is NOT a euphemism for nudity ;)

Pity.

Here 'tis midafternoon and your post called my attention to the fact that I'm still in my sweatsuit jammies. Gotta get the day started.

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Tortured logic (bumped with update)

By Karol Sheinin   ·   August 17, 2006 02:39 PM

Andrew Sullivan, clearly wanting to engage with the "deranged", has asked that I provide evidence that an attack was imminent, and therefore, as I argued, that torture to obtain information about the impending attack was necessary and legitimate.

The entirety of Sullivan's argument, in particular his criticism of me, actually makes no sense. He writes:

"I have yet to read any evidence that an attack was "imminent". All the stories I've read have argued that the plot was for a dummy-run. Maybe Karol Sheinin has sources that I haven't read. If she has, she should provide them, or correct her post. If she has a different understanding of the term "imminent," then it would be helpful for her to say so."

Imminent means "about to occur". From Britain's Daily Mail, August 11th.:

Update, 2:07pm: Sullivan is grasping at straws in his response (notice, it's no longer the "Alleged UK Terror Plot", it's now simply "UK Terror Plot") but ok, fine, let's go. He quotes an MSNBC piece:

 

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Hobbled by a restraining order from Jeff Goldstein, D-Cubed wanders the Internet, a disembodied Pest:

 

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

 

Thursday, August 17, 2006

After reading this:

Great link! I went there and...they aren't obsessed with YOU so much as they are laughing at you. And making very clever jokes at your expense. Excellent poetry, as well, which you could use some help with.

Hey - instead of paying someone to teach you to be funny, you could just learn from the commenters on that site. They've got teh funnee down.

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maybe you should go hang out there, orangeena!
Posted by Orangeena at August 17, 2006 10:47 AM

I remembered my observation that the funniest stuff over there is written in the comments, by people other than Dr. Deb. "orangeena" points out that this site is much funnier, which in my completely objective opinion, is completely true and a very good observation. Clearly, "orangeena" is a person of style and grace with excellent taste in humor.

All kidding aside, the worst, lamest, crappiest attempt at humor here is about 200% funnier than anything that came out of Dr. Deb. Unintentional humor not withstanding, because that is the very best kind of humor when referring to Dr. Deb.

In fact, this unfunny post is at least 300% funnier than anything I have seen from her keyboard.

posted by Sinner @ 2:07 PM   8 comments  

It seems that "teh crazy" has appeared at Vodkapundit again.

Some Peoples' Kids

Posted by Stephen Green  ·  17 August 2006

In a post about photography, someone left me the following comment:

oh my god - did you hear that pajamas media blogger dan drezner killed himself this morning?

That's a lie, and a vicious one at that. It might not surprise you that commenter "steve" has the exact same IP address as Deb Frisch. The email address she's using is "janke@email.com," but I assume it's a fake.

Thanks for the link!

posted by Sinner @ 1:49 PM   2 comments  

Went over for some "lunchtime teh crazy" and couldn't get past the top post (as of now anyway):

sicko stalker

I'm really getting sick of this creep:

John R Henry
Address: [removed]
[removed]

Cell phone: [removed]

e-mail: [removed]
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He lies about having talked to my friends and relatives on south(west)paw and on other blogs. He pretends he has spoken to my ex in tucson. He posts comments using my mother's name. He is icky creepy and I want him to cease and desist from posting comments about me on south(west)paw and the site for the looneytunes obsessed with me.

I wish I had as much information about the idiot named sulla who started the don't hire me site.

Thanks for the contact information, JohnRobert Henry!
Posted by Deb at 10:36 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

SULLA! While sulla is a DHD regular and has been a major part of "teh funny", the name is SINNER.

Maybe if I say it loud and slow: S-I-N-N-E-R.

feh!

We are not "loonytoons", we are "tricksey VBSers". If you're gonna refer to us, at least go to the trouble of getting it right!

Update: Anyone know if there really is someone named "VBS" commenting over at Ace's?

Update II: Moving down the comments and I run across this:

Yeeeees, we are all idiots marching in zombie-like lockstep to the drum of a psychotic government pushing a moronic agenda.

Zombies---->BRAAAAIIIIINS!

To get on FoxNews...hmmm. You should start with being amusing, insightful and personable. Try practicing in front of a mirror. Be sure to frequently ask the deer and stuffed animals for their opinion of your progress.

Then, you should consume Colbert's brain.
Posted by BelindaK at August 17, 2006 08:34 AM

(bold mine)

Now, I wonder who could this "BelindaK" person be?

posted by Sinner @ 11:28 AM   27 comments  

The latest in home-grown, organic "teh funny" from Hawksp:

DebGollum: VBSers hates us. Tricksey VBSers.

DebSmeagal: No, No, No, VBSers likes DebSmeagal. VBSers are our friend.

DebGollum: VBSers keep “the precious” and we wants it, don’ts we?

DebSmeagle: No, not listening, VBSers are our friend!

DebGollum: VBSers KEEP “THE PRECIOUS” AND WE WANTS IT DONTS WE?”

DebSmeagle: yes, yes, we hates the VBSers and we wants “the precious”.

DebGollum: And what is….”the precious”?

DebSmeagle: VBSers bandwidth.

DebGollum: And hows does we gets it?

DebSmeagle: We JB their ephing asses!

posted by Sinner @ 11:17 AM   3 comments  

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Open thread for anything all ya'lls want to talk about...

As for me, I'm going to bed.

OPEN THREAD

I'm starting to feel like Duncan Black.

posted by Sinner @ 9:05 PM   34 comments

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The Protocols of the Daily Kos, Part 15

The mistaken bombing of the USS Liberty by Israel during the Six Day War, a linchpin of antisemitic conspiracy delusions for decades, makes an appearance today in a Daily Kos diary as the progressive, tolerant, netroots gang “criticizes Israel:” Daily Kos: Beholden to Israel? : Case study - the USS Liberty.

If you aren’t aware of the facts of this case, don’t trust the distorted version posted at Daily Kos. Here’s the definitive piece on the USS Liberty by Michael B. Oren: The ‘USS Liberty’: Case Closed.   link: 43 comments

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No Speed Bumps;

It seems this USA country has acquired the name The Great Satan. On more than one occasion Satan could be heard saying, “What? That is ridiculous. Let me tell you about being a Great Satan.”

G&M;

The Canadian Auto Workers union has declared political independence after delegates to the union's constitutional convention voted to formally sever ties with the New Democratic Party.

Well, that frees them up to join Hezbollah!

The "diverse" Front Range Coalition for Justice and Peace in the Middle East held a rally in downtown Denver on the weekend.

Diversity? Yes, the crowd ran the gamut all the way from the genocidal to the merely anti-Semitic.

A very good little video roundup of photo fraud in Lebanon to pass along to your non-blog reading friends.

Add yours in the comments.

Posted by Kate at 06:22 PM | Comments (27)

 

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It must be Thursday -- Deb Frisch is at it again

Posted by Steve Janke of the Blogging Tories at 06:58 PM

Seems like only a week ago -- oh, it was exactly a week ago in fact -- that Deb Frisch posted a fake suicide note on my blog.

You can read the whole story.

Now it's Thursday again, and Deb Frisch is at it again, now signing my name at Vodkapundit.

In a post about photography, someone left me the following comment:

oh my god - did you hear that pajamas media blogger dan drezner killed himself this morning?

That's a lie, and a vicious one at that. It might not surprise you that commenter "steve" has the exact same IP address as Deb Frisch. The email address she's using is "janke@email.com," but I assume it's a fake.

What the hell is wrong with someone that they would lie about a suicice? In Deb's case, it seems like a lot of things.

I'm not sure how to respond. It's so obvious now that it almost has the quality of an ongoing prank, like the guys who steal your garden gnome, then drive it around the country sending you pictures of where the gnome has been. You don't want your gnome stolen, but then when it happens, you just shrug.

At least the gnome gag is funny.

Deb Frisch has the persistance and determination to be pull off a sustained gag. She doesn't have anything remotely approaching a sense of humour though.

I guess I'll be waiting until she posts to yet another blog reporting that I've been found nibbled to death by fire ants.

It is notable, however, that this is the first posting in which I have used my name as a Technorati tag.

[Thanks to John for the heads up]

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Friday, August 18, 2006

Looks like the work of Dr. Deb...

Get some new material Deb! You are getting to suck at "teh crazy" almost as much as you suck at the Internet.

posted by Sinner @ 6:00 AM   26 comments

Netroots Armies (... -- and they're likely to remain a force long after Ned Lamont's demise)

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UK Radical Front Group Gets Blogger Suspended

The UK’s Muslim Public Affairs Committee saw nothing wrong when a Reuters employee sent a death threat to Little Green Footballs in May. In fact, MPACUK invented a bizarre conspiracy plot to justify it, calling LGF (quite flatteringly, I thought) “the most powerful enemies Muslims have faced in a thousand years:” MPACUK - Masajid and ISOCs Silent As Zionists Move In On Inayat Bunglawala!

But when British blogger Inigo Wilson wrote some satirical comments critical of Islamic terrorism, MPACUK launched a successful drive to have him suspended from his job with British mobile phone company Orange: MPACUK - SUCCESS: Orange Suspends Islamophobe!   link: 172 comments

#36

Psicattus  8/18/2006 11:29AM PDT

 

Woah. Charles/LGF is the most powerful threat Muslims have faced in a thousand years?

There was another Charles who annoyed Muslims a while back--Charles Martel.

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Perlmutter: Photojournalism in Crisis

David D. Perlmutter, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies & Research at the University of Kansas School of Journalism & Mass Communications, has an excellent piece on the Fauxtography Scandal—with a big salute to all the blogs who pushed the story forward: Photojournalism in Crisis.

(August 18, 2006) — The Israeli-Hezbollah war has left many dead bodies, ruined towns, and wobbling politicians in its wake, but the media historian of the future may also count as one more victim the profession of photojournalism. In twenty years of researching and teaching about the art and trade and doing photo-documentary work, I have never witnessed or heard of such a wave of attacks on the people who take news pictures and on the basic premise that nonfiction news photo- and videography is possible.

I’m not sure, however, if the craft I love is being murdered, committing suicide, or both.

Perhaps it would be more reassuring if the enemy at the gates was a familiar one—politicians, or maybe radio talk show hosts. But the photojournalist standing on the crumbling ramparts of her once proud citadel now sees the vandal army charging for the sack led by “zombietime,” “The Jawa Report,” “Powerline,” “Little Green Footballs,” “confederateyankee,” and many others.

In each case, these bloggers have engaged in the kind of probing, contextual, fact-based (if occasionally speculative) media criticism I have always asked of my students. And the results have been devastating: news photos and video shown to be miscaptioned, radically altered, or staged (and worse, re-staged) for the camera. Surely “green helmet guy,” “double smoke,” “the missiles that were actually flares,” “the wedding mannequin from nowhere,” the “magical burning Koran,” the “little girl who actually fell off a swing” and “keep filming!” will now enter the pantheon of shame of photojournalism.

A few photo-illusions are probably due to the lust for the most sensational or striking-looking image—that is, more aesthetic bias than political prejudice. Also, many photographers know that war victims are money shots and some will break the rules of the profession to cash in. But true as well is that local stringers and visiting anchors alike seem to have succumbed either to lens-enabled Stockholm syndrome or accepted being the uncredited Hezbollah staff photographer so as to be able to file stories and images in militia-controlled areas.

It does not help that certain news organizations have acted like government officials or corporate officers trying to squash a scandal. The visual historian in me revolts when an ABC producer informs me that Reuters “deleted all 920 images” by the stringer who produced the “Beirut double smoke” image and is “less than willing to talk about it.” Can you say “18-minute gap,” anyone?

Read the whole thing...   link: 33 comments

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http://joeschmo1of3.blogspot.com/2006/08/dont-hire-dr-deborah-frisch.html

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Don't Hire Dr. Deborah Frisch

For those who don't follow the stories about the blogosphere itself, it is still very similar to the old bulletin boards on usenet, with flamewars erupting among the commenters on forum threads, comment sections on blog posts, and feuds simmering between bloggers. The attacks have grown in intensity and variability, from simply getting called names, to cyberstalking, to denial of service attacks. All of these elements came together over the span of a few days on the comment section of Jeff Goldstein's blog Protein Wisdom. A left-leaning troll began posting inflammatory comments to garner negative responses and, in her admission, to get banned. However, Protein Wisdom has a pretty raunchy, at times, comment section and it is all but impossible to get banned. In fact, the crazier the comments, the more entertainment is had by the group of regular commenters. Unfortunately for the troll, who seems to have very poor communication and relational skills, she kept escalating her language until she threatened to sexually assault and kill the blogger's 2 year old son.

As most people are beginning to realize, there really is no anonymity or privacy online. The troll had to resign from her adjunct lecturer position and is now facing legal ramifications in the form of a restraining order. The troll has opportunistically tried to extort money from the blogger and is trying to parlay the notoriety into some kind of media role. In order to starve the attention and to make sure future employers of this Decision Science Ph.D. are fully aware of the damaged goods they are inviting into their workplaces, the Don't Hire Dr. Deborah Frisch blog was created to drive her page views down, so that she will stop getting the attention she desperately covets. Instead of going to the troll's blog to watch the trainwreck, go to the other blog to get the 5 o'clock news version of events.

Updates: As with any community, culture breaks out. For online communities, new vocabulary, inside jokes, nicknames, and personalities emerge. For a quick primer to get you started and posting funny comments over at DHD, take a look at the list below.

• teh crazy® (also teh cray zee®) - a combination of ebonics, misspelled words, and profanity which mark Frisch's posts and responses to those she disagrees with, which is always taken personally. Attributed to Ace of Ace of Spades who posted her comments, misspellings and all, to be held up to ridicule. teh is the mispelling of "the" and is used to reference anything Frisch related.
• teh cycle® - the weekly buildup and occurrence of teh crazy®. It has been suggested that Frisch begins drinking as the weekend starts, which leads to her more memorable posts, usually beginning Thursday night.
• teh WTF Vodka™ - Frisch's alleged drink of choice when she begins teh cycle®. The abbreviation stands for "What the Fuck?"
• teh whatt® - the physical material produced from "you-know-whatting." For Frisch, it was a reference to crying, which was immediately turned into something scatalogical in her own comment board. Now used as a reference to the physical aftermath of any teh crazy® post.
• vodka thirty - the approximate time teh crazy® begins, coinciding with Frisch's first incoherent rant of the weekend. Adapted from beer thirty or gin o'clock, the time of day socially accepted to begin drinking. Usage: "It's always vodka thirty somewhere!"
• sock puppeting - the use of several different, usually funny and relevant, names when leaving comments. Adapted from IP Addresses, also known as sockets, which can be traced to show that the different names are being used by the same computer. For the DHD community, several members have connected sock puppeting to the Muppet Show because of Frisch's posted pictures of stuffed animals. To choose your favorite muppet, visit this site to screen capture the muppet's image.
• poetry slams - Frisch posts poetry regularly. Her poetry is usually straight posts of Robert Service, her adaptations to them, and rants with simple rhyme schemes with no attention to meter. The DHD community has taken this to heart by beating her at her own game, with brilliant adaptations to "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," "The Jabberwocky," and "Casey At The Plate." Song lyric adaptations are quite common and encouraged.
• Trademark and Registered Trademark symbols - the ® and ™ are used on the main three inside jokes of the DHD community. They can also be used as an extra qualifier for any word used after "teh". Use &#174 (®) for the registered trademark symbol and &#153 (™) for the unregistered trademark symbol.
• VBS'er - A DHD community member. Short for vacation bible school. Frisch lurks the DHD comment board and found a mention of a member sending kids to vacation bible school, or VBS. In a post, she called the DHD community "the lynch mob from the Vacation Bible School," which was then shortened to VBS'er in the comments. Also a reference to a BS'er, one who bullshits.

posted by joeschmo1of3 | 2:02 PM   

1 Comments:

Rabbit said...

We need a boilerplate of Deb like they have about Greenwald. The whole "best-selling author quoted in the Senate" thing.

Former NSF Director,PhD.,former adjunct professer,Phd.,Soon to be best selling author quoted in the NYT, did I mention PhD.? (very rough draft)

10:21 AM

[backhoe]

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

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Cirrus said...

Hello from a lurker. I've been following teh crazee for more time than any of you since I had dealings with Frisch and her recent ex off and on for the past several years.

The impression I had always had of them was that they had their own little Desert Rat/Rainbird-Yuppie-Lesbian-Wine Tasting-University-No Taste In Music-Hairy Armpit lifestyle thing happening, with a touch of paranoia and a tendancy to be outrageously high-maintenence. Especially the ex. Yeah, who would have believed it? I always thought Deb was the calm, laid-back one! Talk about strange personality changes! Where is an exorcist when you need one?

I am luckily no longer in any locality near either of them since the blog brawl...I am especially displeased by the way her actions have discredited liberals, Pennsylvanians, decision scientists, bloggers, Arizonans, Oregonians, poets, hikers, lesbians,linguists, educators, dog owners and women named Deb. Any of these topics now leaves me with a bad taste of scorched bat fur in my mouth.

 

 

[backhoe]

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

Monday, August 21, 2006

Now that I am looking around again (I pretty much took the weekend off), I am finding a few nuggests like this comment where Dr. Deb tells us the demographics of "teh DebLand":

You should call up on Monday and volunteer to do work for him.

I would think your experience with Decision/Risk would be invaluable. You are just the kind of person who should be representing the interests of the progressive left.

You are the new face of the left!
Posted by WayLeftFan at August 20, 2006 01:18 PM

WayLeftFan: You should call up on Monday and volunteer to do work for him.

The thought had crossed my mind as well vis-a-vis a temporary employment gig with Senator Wyden. I was hoping for the paying, benefitted kind - not the volunteer kynd! but we're in the same chapter, albeit not on the same page!

Ron Wyden SO wants to hire me as a kind of consultant. I will translate the views of the estranged left (John Zerzan crowd), the rabid left (me, 90% of Whitaker, 69% of south eugene, 50% of lane county, i reckon) the increasingly disturbed left (91.1% of University of Oregon faculty) and the increasingly agitated left (60% of Americans) into a language that is understandable and palatable to the progeny of Senator Wayne Morse.

u da man, ron! u 2, gordon!

u ma baws!

specially now dat paul is ded!

sinceerly,

wayne morse

Posted by word warrior at August 20, 2006 04:38 PM

In "teh DebLand" 60% of Americans are in the "increasingly agitated left". I don't want to get into politics here, but I am pretty sure that in the real world that the numbers haven't changed from the 20/55/25 left/independent/right split. If the majority of americans were in the "increasingly agitated left", we would be in [gulp] President Gore's second term. [shake it off!]

The Oregon numbers might be right, but I doubt it. Wasn't Oregon a swing state in 2004 that frustrated the pundits with their mail-in only balloting?

posted by Sinner @ 5:15 AM   28 comments  

Somehow, I missed this. Lucly for me the readership is more vigilant than I am. The following is a comment on the "peep pop quiz" post. The original comment from "frozenwingnut" refers to an upthread question about the TRO hearing. Enjoy what "teh crazy" there is:

She doesnt know. She doesnt have a lawyer, She didnt attend telephonically. She's just sitting in teh trailer talking to a doll waiting for cold bear to show up. More than likely it will be another green can man with a summons for trial to recoup compensatory damages as well punative. Maybe she will finish her book. I hope so. I hope its a gangbuster and Jeff will get lots of cash. Deb thinks this is like round 4-5. It isn't. This is starting round 2.
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frozenwingnut,

if you care at all about the pathetic, neutered, sissified, stupid, loser from colorado, you will not force me to tell the story of our legal battle before I am ready. jeff goldstein might be the first american to have filed a restraining order against a citizen he never met! ULTIMATE sissy of the year award, don't you think?
Posted by frozenwingnut at August 19, 2006 08:38 PM

This is really interesting, because I would have bet that her laywer was keeping a tight clamp on anything on her blog. She has been doing a good job of STFU about Jeff until this comment.

Interesting, subtle, not smart... LAYERS

posted by Sinner @ 5:00 AM   6 comments

JAMES LILEKS DISCUSSES "the perpetual adolescent strain in post-WW2 culture."

Iranian talk of an attack on America (a report from 2 years ago that needs to be reread today)

[backhoe]

Warning, warning- more Wacky Debster Activity has been reported:

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

Monday, August 21, 2006

No change in the site since I last posted (12 hours)...

Yeeesh... Even I got a Coffee post up on my crapblog...

So, of course this means:

OPEN THREAD

posted by Sinner @ 5:42 PM   33 comments

[backhoe]

Whoops- Dr. Deb's tail is in the crack- see hilited items below:

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

This comment at protein wisdom sounds a little familiar:

I’m sure whatever choice you make will be the incorrect one as with most of your life choices, loser. LOL
Posted by Jeff, suicide is painless | permalink
on 08/22 at 01:25 PM

Might not be Dr. Frisch, but is fits the MO. Notice the author (bold mine)

I knew "teh crazy" would come back!

Update: Out in front of the news on this one. Different IP, not from you jean.

DOH!

posted by Sinner @ 11:31 AM   40 comments

joeschmo1of3 said...

I'm with openacanatuna, which is what I was implying earlier: the UO prof(s) filed a criminal complaint over the emails and phone calls Frisch had been making to former colleagues last week. The arraignment was State vs. Frisch, with charges of stalking and 2 counts of telephonic harrassment.

This is the trainwreck that just keeps on wrecking.

3:20 PM

Northwesterner said...

The courthouse is very helpful when you call them, actually. She was in custody when she appeared, pled not guilty, posted $4,000, and must appear again September 25th at 2:30.

3:22 PM

[backhoe]

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The new worm in Deb's apple is that she was arraigned on 1 count of stalking and 2 counts of telephonic harrassment. This is not related to JG's restraining order...

 

Sulla said...

I propose calling Frisch's "war logic" by the name of Deborrhea.

Well, "teh crazy" is alive and well but I am sleepy

OPEN THREAD

posted by Sinner @ 8:15 PM   21 comments  

From the comments:

Denny Crane said...

In light of her arraignment, I had to send her an email (I would rather have posted it on her site, but I'm banned). Here it is:

"I am so sorry you disagreed with the legal advice I gave. You obviously knew better about the legalities of stalking, harassment, defamation, and related subjects than I. Yes, you certainly did know better."

"Like I, I'm sure the police who arrested you were wrong. I'm sure the DA who obtained that warrant was wrong. I'm sure the judge who arraigned you and ordered $4,000 bail was wrong. We javelinas just don't see true beauty the way you do. You seem to be the only truly enlightened one on our dismal planet."

"However, I'm sure you'll set us straight with more heartfelt talk about the trauma of working for Uncle $cam while we tortured those Iraqis, and being underemployed by the quacks, and the ex's and the dogs and the limp-lobed dungeons and dragons soft porn people (whatever you mean by that remains a mystery to my desiccated lobes). Yes, hopefully we'll all see the light one day, and recognize your genius for what it is. You'll deliver that bolt of enlightenment from the chair of Steve Colbert, no doubt."

"I am very sorry for letting you down. Now I understand why you banned me from commenting at your wonderful site; my bad advice was an embarrassing waste of bandwidth. Please forgive this retired astronaut, failed cop, kick-ass singer of old Beatles' songs, and bloated trial lawyer."

Humbly yours,

Denny Crane

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Someone should contact the DA and have him read all the advice in the comments on her blog. She'll claim she snapped under all the bullshit pressure, but she has been warned about this for months by well-meaning people. She deserves the maximum penalty, in my opinion.

Denny has been so out there with really good advice for Dr. Deb and yet today we see what happens when good (and free) advice is ignored.

posted by Sinner @ 7:33 PM   9 comments  

Busted!

Here are the details

IN CUSTODY ARRAIGNMENT /CIRCUIT & DISTRICT
August 21, 2006 - MONDAY

Circuit Court
210616276 State v Frisch Deborah
Arraignment / Stalking - Misdemeanor / Misdemeanor
/ Telephonic Harassment x 2
No Control Number

DA: Ibanga Emem O.

I agree with the commenters that this is most likely an action taken by "the quacks" that she has been harassing on the blog and presumably in meatspace. I think the Goldstein shoe has yet to drop.

The $4000 bail seems excessive, but I am not an expert on these matters (thank God).

The speculation that she was in "the tank" for awhile is very interesting. Anyone out there have more info?

Thanks to everyone in the comment threads for the real work of tracking this down. For the record, I did none of this hard detective work it was all done by the VBSers.


Making these PUBLIC records more PUBLIC falls directly in line with the mission of this blog. This post will certainly be in the final roundup when "teh crazy" finally ends.

It does have to end... right?

posted by Sinner @ 5:57 PM   26 comments  

For the love of God, don’t go over there for the new post. Its not worth your time.

Here is “Shorter Dr. Deb”:

Fired by the quacks! Waaaaaaaaa!

I’m a most extreme lefty and my picture is in the dictionary under “Bush Derangement Syndrome”.

BDS BDS BDS Iraq BDS BDS Murderer! BDS Bush in Iraq worse than Nazi treatment of Jews. BDS BDS Millions killed! BDS BDS BDS NAZIS! THIRD REICH! BDS BDS Only we, the EDUCATED Americans, matter.

I can’t believe I worked for the THIRD REICH! No wonder I am messed up in the head.

Did I mention that I do stand-up? Its bad for me, but I didn’t know that.

I’m an asshole at work. I always step over the line because BUSH MAKES ME DO IT! He’s such an idiot and yet an EVIL GENIUS!

Even though BUSH IS EVIL, everything bad in my life is due to the actions of the quacks. I am super-fantastic, they just could not handle my fantastic-ness!

I realize that I am unloved and unlovable. I also realize that I am going to alone because nobody likes an insane lefty.

SO… I am not going to be doing “teh crazy” for you peeps anymore because it might hurt my emotional well-being. Also, Bush is a poopy-head Nazi bastard!

Did you know that I’m a JEW? Really.. No foolin!

I promise not to hate religion, even if they all are undeniably evil and wrong. In fact, everything about them is completely against everything right and good in the world. Besides, if there were a God (there isn’t) why would it be MALE? FEH!


There. Now you need not add to her hitcounter.

I went over there for YOU! I'm a GIVER.

posted by Sinner @ 5:50 PM   26 comments  

OK... I go off-line for a while and DebLand goes nuts.

I will digest the info from the comments and her new post and write something later. Gonna get my daughter some ice cream now.

Kicking up the alert level...

For now:

OPEN THREAD

posted by Sinner @ 4:17 PM   27 comments